Ukraine Pulls Back Curtain On Biden – Claims Burisma Paid The Vice President Over $900,000 For Lobbying

By Adam Casalino|October 10, 2019

Biden should be sweating now!

Take a look at this huge development in the Biden case that the media is conveniently ignoring.

We are now learning about a huge accusation leveled at—not Hunter Biden—but Joe himself.

It’s common knowledge that the former Vice President’s son was working for a Ukrainian company. At the same time, Biden pressured the country to fire a man investigating the company.

A pretty clear conflict of interest. Yet, Democrats just looked the other way. When Donald Trump wanted answers, they tried to impeach him!

But the evidence is stacking up that Joe had a very chummy relationship with groups within Ukraine.

According to this bombshell report—he’s being accused of profiting off his ties in a big way.

From NY Post:

Derkach held a press conference earlier Wednesday in Kyiv where he claimed to have documents showing how Burisma Holdings paid Joe Biden the lobbying fees.

“Funds in the amount of $900,000 were transferred to the US-based company Rosemont Seneca Partners,” Derkach told reporters, referring to the investment company the younger Biden founded with Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry.

Woah – a Ukrainian politician is now accusing Joe Biden of receiving $900,000 for “lobbying activities” from Burisma , which Derkach is claiming were routed to him through Seneca.

Burisma Holdings is the very same company his son was working for (and getting paid $50,000 a month).

Now, hang on, Biden claimed he had no clue what his son was doing. He even said he NEVER discussed Hunter’s work.

But now he’s accused of taking payments from the same company as Hunter was.

If this accusation doesn’t get you angry, it should.

Imagine if this was Donald Trump and one of his sons. If the Left even heard Trump was accused of taking $900,000 for “services,” right as he was threatening the Ukrainian government—they would have a field day.

Trump would be deemed immediately guilty just for the appearance of wrongdoing.

Remember, Biden admitted he threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid unless Ukraine fired the man investigating Burisma.

And this accusation would make this case much more than a conflict of interest. Is would cross so many lines.

But is the House investigating Biden? Is our media reporting on these facts? Of course not.

They are trying to convince you that it was Donald Trump breaking the law. Looks like Democrats are totally blind to anything their own party members are accused of.

It’s about time Joe, Hunter, and every last Democrat wrapped up in gets investigated, not Trump who was trying to investigate them.

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Source: Ukraine Pulls Back Curtain On Biden – Claims Burisma Paid The Vice President Over $900,000 For Lobbying

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What’s Bad In America Today: Will Become Worse In the Years – Freedoms Phoenix

During my 40-state bike journey around America this summer, I witnessed, up close and personal, exactly what’s happening to our country.  More than 90 percent of Americans don’t possess a clue as to what’s happened to them and the rest of us and our major cities.  Most of our big cities, welfare magnets, no longer can be called “American cities” because immigrants dominate them.  Americans have fled.   We assume that all immigrants want to live here, thrive here and become Americanized.  That would be a gross mistake when you saw what I saw in my travels this past summer.

At the same time, I keep an eye on Social Media, and thousands of Americans write me letters telling me what’s happening in their neck of the woods. At this point, I want to share some of those letters with you, so, you too, can ‘see’ what’s really happening to us.

Remember this: it’s all coming at us like a brakeless high-speed train filled with cars of multiculturalism, diversity, endless languages, incompatible religions, and in the case of millions of them—outright dislike for our country.  Just this past month, Portland, Oregon accepted certain aspects of Sharia Law within its city limits.  Sharia Law provides the most barbaric treatment to women, animals, human rights and rational living. It’s deadly, it’s malignant and it’s spreading across America.

Rick from Idaho said, “From my research over the years, I suspect that the optimal percent of non-heterogeneous people in a society is half a Standard Deviation.  This is approximately what exists in the north Asian dynamos (Japan, Korea, China). Note: They don’t seem to be suffering from a lack of “diversity!”

“During my younger years, and throughout most of American history, we had at most “one” (14-15%) STD of non-H population, and usually a few points less than that.  And I remember a study of Philadelphia schools in the 60’s which revealed that once the population of minorities exceeded 22% (1.5 STD), not only was the majority dominance  challenged, but violence in the schools also commenced between the groups.

“As Sam Francis wrote: “You cannot separate a culture from the genetic endowments of its founding people, nor can you expect to transfer it to another people.”  Sure, a small minority of any culture will be attracted to another culture, but the majority of a genetic group will be ruled by blood ties.

“Whites are now at about 61% of the population, and yesterday I read that in ten years, whites will be a minority of those under 20. Stopping ALL immigration today, both illegal and legal, would not change the future demographics. It would only delay the inevitable by a few years. And whites MADE Western civilization, and when they are a minority, that civilization will disappear.

“Either deportations of minorities (benign with financial incentives) commences soon, or the country will fracture. I live in north Idaho, and this region along with Montana and Wyoming would be the core of what some call the American Redoubt.”

Art from Philadelphia said, “Frosty, the game is over.  We lost. I have given up. Not even a civil war can save the US, too much fragmentation, no unifying culture.  Most “conservatives” are neocon-Zionist-war-mongers.  Many people  in my middle-class area look like mutations, sloppy, brain dead, etc.  Every smart patriotic citizen should have a Plan B for when disaster strikes.  My prediction is that the government will go bankrupt and massive civil unrest will follow.  [When welfare checks and EBT cards fail, people will riot like animals at food stores.  If you think Los Angeles’ 60,000 homeless are a mess today, just wait until they start starving to death.]

 

“The US is in its death throes, it is culturally decayed and financially depleted with debt.  No way out now, no base to rely on like we had during the Great Depression, actually it was WW I & WW II that Made America Great Again.  That option is gone, WW III will not work.  Americans have suicided their country and will pay a painful price.  Nobody forced them to be stupid and immoral, it was a free choice.

 

“I appreciate  your efforts and hope you have some success and a good Plan B.”
John from Florida said,  “Mr. Wooldridge, Here in South Florida, Miami is 90 percent foreign born.  Any illegal can blend in, buy a home, send children to schools and vote.  Basically, they are not going to be turned in by their own kind.

“The ones coming legally on HB visas are stealing jobs and also a burden on social welfare systems.  As my tax load ever increases, I see the money going directly to people that don’t even belong in the US.  They are 99.9% economic migrants.

The USA is headed to Civil War II.   Americans are sick and tired of the Federal Government and the immigration problems are all created and designed to destroy the country.  None of it is by accident.

“George Soros is financing hoards to illegally migrate?  Then why is he not arrested for insurrection and treason.  All his assets should be forfeited to the US Government and he and his children need to be executed for such crimes.

“Civil War II will accomplish these things.  All 25 million illegals in our country will self-deport because they will have an offer they cannot refuse.  All the others once cut off the tit, will also leave as the financial incentives are abruptly erased.  In some places it will be unpleasant  as frustrated Americans clean house.

“I am glad to see you back focused on these issues.  We are at war and it will soon turn hot.  Keep stoking the fuel!”

This reader said, “The Florida Keys were a paradise growing up in 60’s and 70’s.  My Great Grandfather worked for Florida East Coast Railway.  He was a blacksmith and built the viaducts you saw abandoned off the current highway including the seven-mile bridge.  I think you were taking your life in your hands completing such a trip.  Incredibly inattentive drivers here.  The keys are fished out and I haven’t been in years.  Used to go down fishing and diving frequently.  Had a time share in Marathon but don’t go anymore because the fish are gone and reefs dead.  There are 13 million living on SE coast and nature cannot support the load.

“Don’t be so hard on working Americans.  We have had a 100% bought- off media since the Brass Check Days.  While we are all busy trying to pay the tax load the criminals in DC have sold out to the globalists who  want to destroy our culture and steal the resources of this great country.  Most people are isolated and unless you live in a city you are insulated from how bad it has become.  The internet has awakened the masses.  Many folks are beginning to pay attention.  As the communist party is doing their Hail-Mary, the American public is not buying it.  People I consider extreme liberals are assessing their views.  The pressure is building, and the relief valve is open civil war.

“The next couple years will be pivotal.  Please keep hitting it hard.  Keep it blunt.  I blast everything you send on immigration;  this war will soon go hot.  We will win because there’s no place for any of us to evacuate to.   The communists are all outing themselves and it will not be difficult to mop up.  If you ever need logistical support,  a bed, meal and shower.  Anytime!”

This reader said, “I am a pilot with #1.  Used to work for TWA.  I have seen the world first hand. I overnight in all those cities you mentioned.  The changes in the last five years are incredible.  Back in 80’s, I would enjoy a dinner cruise on the Nile.  Now Egypt is suicide for a white man.

“I have observed the common thread to be the City of London,  Rothschilds debt/slave banking cartel. It has corrupted and destroyed the world.  They call the shots with 1,000,000 associated banks.  They control elections, politicians, governments, major industrials and promote endless war.  It is a demonic force and lapdogs like Soros and Rockefeller’s are their agents.  The CFR has 5000 willing agents in the US all spread like corn roots destroying the fabric of our Republic.  The USA has immense mineral wealth.

“If they create destruction and chaos here, they can rob those resources at will.   As the US defaults on the massive debt it owes to the FED cartel, the bankruptcy will give up federal lands with all the wealth to satisfy the debt.   By flooding the country with nonnatives, it essentially creates a “Tower of Babel”.  No cohesive society left to stop them.   The Epstein pedo-saga is the City of London blackmailing useful idiots in power.    Our time is short to stop this.  Trump is the last chance for our country to restore the Republic.”

If you would like to tell your story so I can publish it to all Americans, send it to me from your neck of the woods.  We need to create more knowledge for all Americans on how fast our country degrades and deteriorates into a multicultural quagmire and parallel societies along with more racial, religions and ethnic conflict—just like Europe and Canada.

Once we gain a “Tipping Point” of Americans who demand a stop to all immigration, we might stand a chance to survive the 21stcentury. On this current path, we won’t.

Write  frostyw@juno.com

God bless you and God bless the United States of America.

Source: What’s Bad In America Today: Will Become Worse In the Years – Freedoms Phoenix

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Alarmism Exposed: The entire world is warming faster than the entire planet | Watts Up With That?

Back in 2010, WUWT published a story called “Faster than everyplace else…” It illustrated how the media has portrayed warming as being “doubly bad” where you live. Only one problem – we compared stories, and what we found is pretty ridiculous.

Here’s a video update:

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Source: Alarmism Exposed: The entire world is warming faster than the entire planet | Watts Up With That?

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Psychologists: Children Should Undergo Irreversible Gender-Transition Surgery Without Parental Consent | The Daily Wire

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A top psychology group representing 24,000 psychologists in Australia claims children should neither have to get parental consent nor undergo mandatory counseling to undergo irreversible gender-transition surgeries. 

The Australian Psychological ­Society (APS), according to a report from The Australian, “says the disapproval of both parents should not inhibit a child under 16 from consenting to procedures,” The Daily Mail reported last week.  

The top group argued that children suffering from gender confusion would be assessed by “competent” doctors, which would apparently trump any parental reservations. 

The APS made the claims in an unpublished law reform submission, according to The Australian. 

“It was only last year transgender children needed to seek the approval of the Family Court to have irreversible surgery,” The Daily Mail noted. “The APS’ stance comes from questions floated by the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute,” which is “in the process of reviewing legislation which allows teenagers over 16 to change their gender identity on their birth certificate.”

The group of psychologists also argued that “mandatory pre-surgery counselling is often ‘an unnecessary burden’ on the child,” noted The Daily Mail. 

“The APS said the child’s gender identity had likely already experienced ‘considerable medical oversight,’” The Daily Mail continued. “Parents who disapprove of their children’s medical treatment pose a ‘significant barrier’ for the child, it said.”

Looking to skirt dissenting parents, the APS suggested hospitals and advocacy groups petition courts. Additionally, the group argued that children should have access to legal counsel in order to seek authorization for their own gender-related treatments.

With the mounting reports of gender-transition “regret,” the advice from the APS is particularly troubling. As highlighted by The Daily Wire on Monday, a recent Sky News report detailed accounts of young people who have detransitioned.

Born a biological female, Charlie Evans, 28, viewed herself as male for almost ten years before deciding to detransition. Evans told Sky News she’s spoken to “hundreds” of young people, mostly same-sex attracted women, who also regret their gender transitions. The young woman has encountered an “online community of 5,000 in a similar position,” according to the report. 

“I’m in communication with 19 and 20-year-olds who have had full gender reassignment surgery who wish they hadn’t, and their dysphoria hasn’t been relieved, they don’t feel better for it,” Evans told Sky News, adding, “I think some of the common characteristics are that they tend to be around their mid-20s, they’re mostly female and mostly same-sex attracted, and often autistic as well.”

“They don’t know what their options are now,” she explained.

One of the women who reached out to Evans began her gender transition at the young age of 13. “After taking testosterone her voice got a lot deeper, she grew facial hair and her body changed. She had been planning to have surgery to remove her breasts this summer,” Sky News reported.

Now, at 21, the young woman, who only wished to be identified as “Ruby,” wants to try to undo the damage done to her body and live as a female. 

“I didn’t think any change was going to be enough in the end and I thought it was better to work on changing how I felt about myself, than changing my body,” she said. 

As noted by Sky News, pushback against irrevocably changing a gender-confused child has been largely deemed “transphobic.” 

Source: Psychologists: Children Should Undergo Irreversible Gender-Transition Surgery Without Parental Consent | The Daily Wire

-A Swedish study found that patients who undergo gender transition surgery are 19 times as likely to commit suicide. Does it really make sense to do away with mandatory counseling for these children? It seems the trans children are less important to the transgender advocates than their social engineering campaign.

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10 Reasons Democrats’ Impeachment Argument Is Falling Apart | Zero Hedge

Authored by Tom Elliott via Grabien.com,

On Wednesday Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) offered a compelling case for impeaching President Trump. Describing his actions as a “classic mafia shakedown of a foreign leader,” Schiff said Trump in a phone call with the Ukrainian president threatened to withhold aid if he didn’t produce comprising intelligence on his 2020 political rival, Joe Biden.

“The president communicates to his Ukrainian counterpart that the United States has done a lot for Ukraine; we’ve done an awful lot for Ukraine, more than the Europeans or anyone else has done for Ukraine, but there’s not much reciprocity here. This is how a mafia boss talks. What have you done for us? We’ve done so much for you. But there’s not much reciprocity. I have a favor I want to ask you. And what is that favor? Of course the favor is to investigate his political rival, to investigate the Bidens.”

It sounds bad.

Schiff’s painting a picture — using invented dialogue, a trick he tried again in a subsequent congressional hearing — of a president manipulating U.S. foreign policy to wrest personal favors from foreign leaders. But as more evidence comes to surface, that picture is quickly fading.

Here are 10 ways Democrats’ original impeachment argument is coming apart:

1. No quid pro quo. Despite Democrats’ initial claim, there was no quid pro quo. The call transcript shows the topic of aid only came up in reference to how well the U.S. treats Ukraine, particularly as compared to Euro nations, most specifically Germany. At no point does Trump threaten to withhold anything, as even some of Trump’s media critics conceded.

2. Ukrainians weren’t pressured. Democrats and the media have repeatedly insisted President Trump “acted like a mob boss” in applying pressure on President Volodymyr Zelensky. He, however, defended Trump, saying he felt no pressure. “ I think you read everything,” he told reporters in New York this week. “So I think you read text. I’m … I am sorry but I don’t want to be involved to democratic open, uh, hum… вибориe… elections of U.S.A. You’ve heard we had, um, I think good phone call. It was normal. We spoke about many things and I thought so. And I think and you read it that nobody push it, pushed me.”

3. Timeline. Politico’s Ken Vogel reported that the Ukrainian delegation hadn’t even been made aware aid was held up until a month after the Trump call. It’s hard to see they could feel they’re being “extorted,” as Democrats keep saying, if they weren’t even aware of the pressure supposedly being applied.

4. No Illicit Favors. When the White House released the call transcript, readers noticed that after some initial mutual flattery, Zeleznsky brings up buying more Javelin missiles; President Trump then asks for a favor and requests additional information into 2016 election meddling. Rep. Adam Schiff suggested Trump’s request for a “favor” actually referenced wanting dirt on Joe Biden, but Biden only comes up later in the conversation, and in a separate context. Nonetheless, the major media almost uniformly reported the “favor” line from Trump’s call in the same inaccurate fashion.

5. Whistleblower Complaint Lacks Credibility. This complaint, which Democrats for some reason insisted was more important than the call transcript itself, was basically a version of that original call that had been run through a game of telephone. The report had the basic story reasonably accurate, but then supplemented that synopsis with additional accumulated gossip. At least three key details in the complaint have since been shown to be false. As the document is itself a product of hearsay — the self-described whistleblower admits at the beginning of his report that he never witnessed anything — and the fact it contains demonstrable inaccuracies, its importance should certainly be subjugated to the call transcript itself.

6. Fake News, Bad Polls. The media outlets driving the story have thrown into question their credibility after a series of major mistakes. The Washington Post reported the director of National Intelligence, Joseph Maguire, threatened to resign if he weren’t allowed to speak publicly about the whistleblower report. Maguire responded and emphatically called the Post’s report untrue, repeating that insistence while under oath during subsequent congressional testimony. ABC News and Axios both reported that an adviser to the Ukraine president said their delegation was aware in advance that aid money was being used as leverage; unfortunately for these media outlets, their source wasn’t actually an adviser to the president and the outlets had to issue updates.

Democrats are pointing to a growing number of Americans supporting impeachment to buttress their argument, but it’s a safe bet these numbers will shift after the dust on this story starts to settle.

7. Adam Schiff. Two weeks before Congress was notified of an intelligence community whistleblower report, Adam Schiff was already tweeting out the thrust of the accusation:

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@RepAdamSchiff

Trump is withholding vital military aid to Ukraine, while his personal lawyer seeks help from the Ukraine government to investigate his political opponent.

It doesn’t take a stable genius to see the magnitude of this conflict.

Or how destructive it is to our national security. https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1166839608811970560 

Natasha Bertrand

@NatashaBertrand

BREAKING: Trump has asked his national security team to review funding for Ukraine, to ensure the money is being used “in the best interests” of the US. The funding has been put on hold.
News comes days after Trump advocated for reinstating Russia to G7. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/28/trump-ukraine-military-aid-russia-1689531 

22.8K people are talking about this

How was Schiff made aware of this report before Congress? Who in the intelligence community was Schiff in contact with? Did he have any role in helping engineer the report’s entry into Congress? These are questions Americans deserve having answered before they can fairly consider the merits of impeaching President Trump.

8. Origins. The Federalist reported late Friday that the intelligence community adjusted rules related to whistleblower complaints so that hearsay evidence could now be accepted. Whereas historically a whistleblower actually has to witness the conduct to file a report about it, a month before this report was sent to Congress, the intelligence community dropped this long-standing requirement and the “whistleblower” was subsequently able to file his report. A spokesman for the DNI refused comment to the Federalist for why the change was made.

This awfully convenient timing surely requires further investigation before lawmakers can be expected to fairly adjudicate the accusations against Trump.

9. Rudy. It’s widely reported Rudy Giuliani was Trump’s go-to guy for actually carrying out this conspiracy. On his call, Trump told the Ukraine president to speak with Rudy (as well as AG Barr), about the investigation into an oil company on whose board sat Hunter Biden, the former vice president’s son. But Giuliani first communicated with his Ukrainian counterparts more than a year before Biden entered the race. Yes, it’s possible they anticipated Biden eventually entering the race; but it’s also possible Trump actually thought there might be legitimate corruption worthy of investigating. Giuliani tries to prove this point by noting the State Dept. was helping coordinate his communications. This may be unseemly, and perhaps even unethical, but it’s not entirely different from the role (as some have pointed out) Sidney Blumenthal played when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. At the least, a lot more information is needed before establishing Trump’s use of Rudy clearly demonstrates any kind of impeachable conduct.

10. Coverup? Democrats say the White House has engaged in a pattern of obstruction and coverup to hide their wrongdoing. But is this true? DNI’s Maguire only opted against releasing the report to Congress after the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel said the report did not concern conduct within the intelligence community and was thus “statutorily deficient.” Maguire was following the law, but Democrats rebelled, and ultimately the report was released anyway. The White House also released a transcript of the call itself. It’s hard to see how the White House is guilty of a coverup when they’ve already released the primary documents.

Other media speculators pointed toward the whistleblower report alleging the (now public) transcript having apparently been transferred to a “more secure” server. On Friday night, former National Security Adviser to President Obama, Susan Rice, said that the Obama Administration likewise moved occasionally transcripts to this server (though she said, somewhat unsurprisingly, that when they did it there was a compelling reason). CNN additionally reports that the Trump Administration has been placing all of these foreign call transcripts on this server for more than a year in an effort to contain leaks.

Democrats say they want to move as expeditiously as possible through this impeachment inquiry. And it’s no wonder why. As the more information comes out, the less credible the core of their original claim becomes. 

Source: 10 Reasons Democrats’ Impeachment Argument Is Falling Apart | Zero Hedge

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Attorney General Bill Barr — Do Republicans See the Strategy to Discredit the Barr Investigation? | National Review

 

Attorney General William Barr listens to a question as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 1, 2019. (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)

Democrats and their media friends are attempting to paint the Barr investigation, in the public mind, as a corrupt extension of a down-and-dirty Trump 2020 political campaign.In the weekend column, I observed the media-Democrat complex’s politicized reporting of the July 25 conversation between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart:

Trump detractors hyper-focus on the president’s request that President Zelensky provide Attorney General Barr with any information Ukraine might have about Biden twisting arms to quash an investigation involving his son’s cashing in on dad’s influence. I say “hyper-focus” because there was a lot more to it than that. Long before the conversation came around to the Biden topic, the “favor” that Trump asked for was Zelensky’s assistance in Barr’s ongoing investigation of the genesis of the Trump-Russia investigation. 

Virtually all mainstream-media reporting and Democratic commentary on the conversation now fits this pattern. It is noted that Trump, immediately after the “quid pro quo” set-up — “I would like you to do us a favor though” — invoked the attorney general, the nation’s top federal law-enforcement official. Studiously omitted is the context of this invocation: a wholly appropriate request by the president, to the head of state of a country in possession of relevant evidence, for cooperation with a legitimate investigation being conducted by our country’s Justice Department.

Instead, the coverage skips a few hundred words. It cuts directly to Trump’s suggestion that Zelensky look into whether there was any impropriety in former vice president Biden’s having purportedly “stopped the prosecution” that might have arisen out of a Ukrainian investigation involving his son.

The strategy here is obvious. The Democrats and their note-takers would like the public to believe that Barr’s investigation is an adjunct of the Trump 2020 campaign — and a grossly improper one at that. The misimpression they seek to create is that Barr is putting the nation’s law-enforcement powers in the service of Trump’s reelection campaign, in the absence of any public interest. The hope is that this will delegitimize not only any information that emerges from Ukraine but the whole of the Justice Department’s investigation of intelligence and law-enforcement abuses of power attendant to the 2016 election.

I’ll repeat what I elaborated over the weekend:

No matter how much Democrats seek to discredit that probe and the AG overseeing it, it is a legitimate investigation conducted by the United States Department of Justice, which has prosecutors assigned and grand jury subpoena power. It is examining questionable Justice Department and FBI conduct. It is considering whether irregularities rise to the level of crimes. It will be essential to Congress’s consideration of whether laws need to be enacted or modified to insulate our election campaigns from politicized use of the government’s counterintelligence and law-enforcement powers. 

The hypocrisy here is breathtaking, even by Adam Schiff standards.

Many of us did not like the Mueller investigation. I repeatedly contended that the appointment of a special counsel was inappropriate for several reasons. The pertinent regulations require a basis for believing a crime predicating a criminal investigation or prosecution has occurred, and there was none in the case of President Trump. The regs similarly require a conflict of interest based on the predicate crime, and since there was no such predicate, there was no conflict requiring the Justice Department to appoint an outside lawyer. The FBI and Justice Department had announced that they were conducting a counterintelligence investigation; unlike a criminal investigation, counterintelligence investigations are typically not assigned to a prosecutor because intelligence collection and analysis are not intended to build courtroom prosecutions. Furthermore, the president was repeatedly told he was not under investigation (a representation the FBI and Justice Department must be held to, even though it appears not to have been true). And there was no legal basis for the FBI to open a criminal investigation of the president (as then–acting director Andrew McCabe said he did) just because the president fired the FBI director — which the president is constitutionally empowered to do at will, which did not obstruct the Russia investigation in the slightest, and which McCabe acknowledged did not obstruct the Russia investigation.

Source: Attorney General Bill Barr — Do Republicans See the Strategy to Discredit the Barr Investigation? | National Review

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‘Red Flag’ laws too dangerous to support – GOPUSA


 

Hard cases make bad law, as they say, and red flag laws are bad.

“Red Flag” laws, which have been a hot topic of discussion since last weekend, are designed to take guns away from mentally unstable people before they can harm themselves or anyone else.

This sounds good in theory, but in practice, such laws are a danger to mentally healthy people in our day and a threat to the Constitution to boot.

The main question is this: Who gets to decide who is too mentally unstable to own a firearm? And how is that decision made? Most newly adopted laws (six such laws have been signed this year) and newly proposed laws (two dozen have been introduced in various states) require some kind of certification from a mental health professional that a judge can then use to confiscate someone’s firearm(s).

To put it bluntly, this puts your right to own a firearm into the hands of the American Psychological Association or the American Psychiatric Association, who will set the standards for the mental health community. No thanks.

These groups, for instance, once correctly viewed homosexuality as prima facie evidence of a profound mental disorder. But now they think that those who still believe that are the mentally disordered ones.

There are many on the left, including many in the helping professions, who think of conservative Christians as mentally disordered and incurable bigots, racists, homophobes, and xenophobes, and fantasists who believe in an invisible but powerful friend in the sky whom no one has ever seen. If these mental health professionals acquire the authority to legally recommend the confiscation of firearms, every liberty we value will be placed at risk.

As NRA spokesman Catherine Mortensen said, any risk-protection orders must include, at a minimum, “strong due process protections.” After all, we are talking here about an explicit constitutional right, the right to own and carry firearms, enshrined in the Constitution as one of the inalienable rights bestowed on us by the Creator.

The Constitution is clear that an individual can be required by the state to forfeit a constitutional right, but only after he has received “due process” first. This means that he must be indicted for a crime established by lawmakers, have the right to face his accusers in open court, be put on trial before a jury of his peers, and have the assistance of counsel. If a jury finds him guilty, then and only then can he be deprived of his right to self-defense.

If lawmakers are serious about these protection orders, then some form of treatment must be required if the restriction is to do any good. Who will administer the treatment and who will be required to pay for it? Do we have any evidence that conventional professional counseling even works in situations like these? Otherwise, it’s all just feel-good legislation that accomplishes nothing.

Will such legally prescribed treatments include confinement in a facility? That’s important because it involves the revocation of another inalienable right, the right to liberty. Will such extreme risk orders include meaningful punishments for those who inevitably will make false claims in circumstances of high interpersonal conflict? What exactly will those penalties be?

Finally, if a judge manages to take a firearm away from someone he considers dangerous, what will prevent the accused from simply finding another weapon? According to researcher Clayton Cramer, mass murders have been carried out with axes and hatchets and knives, with fire, poison gas, explosives, and vehicles.

Another danger is that, if mental stability becomes the issue, anyone who is on any kind of prescription psychotropic medication from antidepressants on up will be suspect.

In USA Today‘s list of mass murders for the years 2008 to 2017, almost 25 percent were carried out without guns. We don’t hear much about them because they don’t fit the left’s narrative that it is guns and not people which are inherently evil.

On top of all this, only about 25 percent of all mass shooters had been clinically declared mentally ill before the carnage occurred. Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun-control organization, says only about half the gunmen in mass shootings even exhibit warning signs before the killings. How does that help us with the other half?

Besides which, in America, we do not punish people for what they might do.

The only solution is the one that has been there since 1789: The Second Amendment, which guarantees the right of all Americans to defend themselves with a weapon at home and in public. Of all mass shootings in the last 70 years, 98 percent have taken place in gun-free zones which turn into human shooting galleries when nobody in the place can shoot back. It turns out the only ones who were gun-free were the ones who needed a gun to protect themselves. Red flag laws aren’t going to do anything about that.


Bryan Fischer hosts “Focal Point with Bryan Fischer” every weekday on AFR Talk (American Family Radio) from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. (Central). He is author of The Boy to Man Book: Preparing Your Son for Manhood.

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Source: ‘Red Flag’ laws too dangerous to support – GOPUSA

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